Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Also today, four national hospice organizations met with LaSure to share their own concerns and recommend potential solutions — LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Initially established in 2008 as a rehabilitation service provider, Choice expanded into home health during 2012 and later into hospice in 2018. In 2020 the company partnered with the investment firms Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings to widen its reach as a post-acute care company.

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Hospice News

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming majority of hospice providers have seen costs of patient care rise 3% to 10% since 2019, and many expect further increases next year. Admission liaisons, nurses, aides and IT staff saw the largest increases, according to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Utah-headquartered Canyon Home Care & Hospice has acquired Arizona-based internal medicine practice Thomas G. Internists specialize in caring for patients with cancer and infections or diseases affecting the heart, blood, lungs, kidneys, joints, or digestive tracts. “We Dallman, M.D., LLC for an undisclosed sum.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Signatories on the joint letter included Leading Age, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). This includes Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“By expanding access to care in the home, we empower individuals to make decisions about their care that are in line with their goals and priorities,” Hoing said. The JV is currently honing its focus on expanding access to home care for seniors across South Dakota. Seniors are projected to make up 27.5%

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Hospice News

MAY 26, 2022

Above & Beyond has provided home health and hospice care across eastern Iowa since 2004. Its home care services include nursing, and physical occupational and speech therapies, among others. The JV brought additional hospice and home health locations to Boise, Idaho.

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Paul Mastrapa becomes CEO of Interim HealthCare Jennifer Sheets is out as CEO of Interim HealthCare and Caring Brands International. Paul Mastrapa, former CEO of Help at Home, will succeed her. Mastrapa since 2021 has been an advisor and consultant to multiple health care companies. Gerard wrote on LinkedIn Monday.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The deal includes MercyOne’s hospice, infusion and home care locations. Established in 1998, MercyOne’s health system consists of 16 medical centers, 27 affiliate organizations and more than 420 care sites, employing 2,000 physicians and care providers who serve upwards of 3.3 million patients annually. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

JUNE 16, 2022

In part, the trend of more hospitals and health systems in hospice is a response to growing demand and strain on acute care services. More health systems are looking to expand into community-based hospice and palliative care to complement existing offerings while creating new care delivery channels.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2022

Amedisys cited Muscato’s integral roles in strategic investments such as the joint venture strategy the company is pursuing with its Tennessee-based subsidiary Contessa Health, which grew its reach into the high-acuity home care space. Nathan Howell recently joined the nonprofit hospice’s board of directors.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Similar concerns have emerged in Texas, Nevada, and Arizona, according to a letter to LaSure by hospice industry groups, LeadingAge, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Staff of Hospice of Cincinnati/HOC Navigators will provide hospice care at the center. Established in 1977, Hospice of Cincinnati provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and advanced care planning educational services. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2023

Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state. In January, hospice organizations began sounding the alarm on similar activity in other states — Arizona, Texas and Nevada. In that time frame, Nevada saw 56 newly certified hospices, and 369 emerged in Texas.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The North Carolina-based organization offers home infusion services, along with home care and hospice. Hospices can greatly underestimate the cost of turnover in terms of dollars, quality of care and organizational performance,” Linton said. increase on average between 2018 to 2023, according to a report from IBIS World.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 8, 2023

A large contingent of these companies were established with the purpose of selling the license at a profit, with little concern for patient care. Arizona had 239 new Medicare-certified hospices appear between 2018 and 2022, representing 52% of all providers in the state.

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Hospice News

MARCH 1, 2024

It covers the essentials of delivering end-of-life care in the home and compliance with regulatory requirements. “We understand that the needs of direct care workers are broadly the same across different care settings, which propelled us to expand our offerings beyond home care to serve the entire post-acute care continuum.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mecklenburg County has six licensed hospice providers, according to data shared with Hospice News by the Association for Home Care & Hospice of North Carolina (AHHC-NC). We’re very sensitive to the need to improve health equity in North Carolina and in the hospice and home care industry.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Other providers in the group include Kalos Health, Liberty Home Care, Hospice of Orleans and The Niagara Hospice Alliance. “It Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

New research is carving out the case for palliative care investment as more hospices dive into this growing market. A recently published study from Scientific Reports found that cancer patients who received palliative care services required 38% fewer emergency department visits and saw 56% fewer hospital admissions than those who did not.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

We seek to strengthen the notion that in order to provide the highest level of care for hospice beneficiaries, we must provide ongoing focus to those services that enforce CMS’ definitions of hospice and palliative care and eliminate any barriers to accessing hospice care.” A second RFI addressed social determinants of health.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2022

In enacted, the recently reintroduced Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA) could make a dent in the recruitment barriers that hospices keep hitting. The training issue is a serious impediment to hospice recruitment, as very few students in any clinical discipline receive exposure to hospice or palliative care concepts.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2022

The clearest example of how this works was the 2020 rebasing of payments for the four levels of hospice care. CMS that year reduced routine home care (RHC) rates by 2.7% and increased amounts for continuous home care, general inpatient care, and inpatient respite care by the same percentage.

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2023

Generational gaps among educators represent one of the most pressing obstacles to ensuring a sustainable supply of trained hospice clinicians, according to Terese Acampora, COO of MJHS Hospice and Home Care, part of the New York-based MJHS Health System. “To MJHS Hospice and Home Care is among them.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. Marcantonio is COO and interim CEO at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Under Cottrell’s leadership, the hospice in 2020 expanded its service lines to include palliative care. Pope has been at St.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) recently awarded the company a certificate of need (CON) to begin offering hospice services in that region. The company already offers home care services in that county. Seniors represent 21.1% of the population in Pinellas County, Florida, according to the U.S.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Other methodologies are in development or in the eary stages of implementation, including the Hospice Care Index and the forthcoming Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE). Nearly 54% Medicare decedents received hospice care for 30 days or less in 2018, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Kindred at Home has been on a circuitous journey with Humana. The insurance giant acquired 40% ownership of the home health, hospice and personal care provider in 2018, with the private equity firms Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) and TPG Capital holding the remaining 60%. Value-Based care a prime mover.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

First up, we have Adam Marks, who is a med, peds and palliative care physician and associate professor at the University of Michigan. Alex 00:43 And we are delighted to welcome Laura Taylor, who is also med, peds and a palliative care doc and assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Adam, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Creating a standardized patient data collection system would go a long way towards finding and filling cracks in hospice quality and access among underserved populations, according to Katy Barnett, director of home care and hospice operations at LeadingAge.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. Hundreds of home care agencies across North America have shared their business data with us, and we’re making their industry secrets public. Home care providers experienced 7.3%

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. 1. What is palliative care?

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. 1. What is palliative care?

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Elizz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The term ‘palliative care’ stirs up different images and thoughts and feelings in people’s minds. Within the healthcare field, the meaning of palliative care has changed over time. Read on to learn more about key questions and answers about palliative care today. 1. What is palliative care?

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Kimberly, in the q and a just asked, what is the difference between hospice and palliative care? Palliative care works with people who have life threatening illnesses, but who want to continue trying treatment.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Startups such as Empathy, Betterleave Bereavement Care, Grief Refuge and Help Texts (formerly Grief Coach) have launched platforms designed to help families cope and assist with tasks such as funeral planning, account cancellations, legalities and financial arrangements. Palliative Care Providers Hitting Walls in Value-Based Reimbursement.

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